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M. T. Anderson

May 2010 · Candlewick Press

About this ebook

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.

Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.

Ratings and reviews

Interesting concept but poorly executed. The plot starts out slow and predictable then it doesn't go anywhere. The book's protagonist is Titus, an uninteresting mindless teenager. He meets a girl that begins to make him think but he doesn't question anything. Not why the world is run by corporations or why the environment is destroyed. He just accepts it. Nothing in the world changes because of him. Titus doesn't change either.

Started off a little confusing, but once you kept reading you understood the feelings and thoughts and the different vocabulary that each character had /used. This makes you wonder, is technology going to come so far, to the point where you can't live without it?

Incredibly well-written. There's a reason why it won an award! This was one of the first books I read where I could see the way the world was pieced together to make it believable and relate-able - a bit scarily so. It's probably one of the most likely dystopian novels I've encountered, which is a bit terrifying, but also says a lot about how compelling the ideas are. A great read for anyone who enjoys novels about dystopian tech futures.

About the author

M. T. Anderson is the author The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume I: The Pox Party, winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller, and its sequel, The Kingdom on the Waves, which was also a New York Times bestseller. Both volumes were also named Michael L. Printz Honor Books. M. T. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.